Improvement in milking-pails



- d, all arranged as represented.

upper part of the pail is an inclined dished UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE T. LINCOLN, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MlLKlNG-PAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,679., dated June 10, 1873; application led April 11, 1873.

In such drawings, A denotes a conical vessel i or pail, provided with a hail, a, a discharging nose or spout, b, a handle, c, and a top' guard, Within the cap or cover, B, fixed along its entireedge to the inner surface of the pail. Between the spout and the lower part of the edge of the cover is an opening through the s ide of the pail, leading into the spout b, such opening being provided with a strainer, e, and within and extended across the spout, and above the said strainer, is another strainer, f. In rear of the strainer e, and next to it, the cover B is provided with a concavity, g, sunk below the strainer e, and back of such concavity there is an inlet or hole, h, through the cover B, such hole being furnished with a cover, t', all being as represented. The purpose of the concavity `g is to receive the milk as it is discharged from the teat of a cow, and to hold a portion thereof in order to prevent the foreign matters from being driven through the strainer by the The milk rising in the force of the stream. concavity will iow through the strainer e down into that part of the pail which is below the dished cap. Un tipping the pail the milk r may be discharged therefrom through the enable a person to insert his arm into the body i of the pail or part beneath the cap for cleansing such, the spout, and its strainer, as occasion may require, the opening being kept covered during the milking process. One great merit oi' this pail is, that it' upset by the cow or by accident, there is little or no liability of loss of milk.

I claim- I l 1 1. In the milking-pail, the two strainers ef, the discharging-spout, and the dished cover B, combined and arranged as specified. 4

2. The dished cover B, made with the inlet or opening h and the milk-receiving recess or concavity g, arranged together,- and with the strainer e, as set forth.

3. The milk-pail provided with the stationary cap B, the two strainers e f,the inlet h,

and the milkreceivin g cavity g, all arranged,l

with the pail body and spout, substantially as explained and represented. l GEO. T. LINCOLN. Witnesses:

B. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

